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About Energy Medicine
Energy medicine seeks to use, for potential health purposes, forces
of two types:
- Forces that scientific instruments can measure (for example,
forces associated with electromagnetic fields).
- Forces (called biofields or putative energy fields) that some
people believe surround and penetrate the human body, but whose
existence is not yet scientifically proven. Ki, the life-force energy
described in Reiki, is in this second category.
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Researchers have been interested in detecting and describing the
physical properties of biofields. Some, using certain sophisticated
tools, have claimed to detect or photograph differences in study
participants before and after energy treatments. However, it is not
clear what is being detected or photographed. Others have claimed to
detect energy interactions between healers and people they treat.
However, these findings have not been validated, and the exact nature
of the energies is not clear.
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